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    Heritage Site" by UNESCO (1994). I will look at both qualified peoples as well as those who write books. I will give you a few theories to whet your appetite. What are the Nazca Lines? About over 400 km (200 miles) south of Lima in the Peruvian Desert‚ there lies a plateau between the Inca and Nazca Valleys. The Nazca Valley was inhabited by a people who developed advanced farming methods that allowed them to build an irrigation system‚ improve their crops‚ and expand the area of land they could

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    Newcastle Earthquake

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    PART I INTRODUCTION AIM The aim of this report is to describe the Newcastle earthquake and identify its social‚ physical and economic effects on the community. The event in detail‚ major effects‚ how the event was caused‚ the effects on the communities property‚ people‚ infrastructure and economy‚ will all be addressed in this report. Also the long term planning implications‚ preventative measures‚ preparedness‚ response implications‚ and well as recovery implications will covered and described

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    often invisible1. On January 12‚ 2010 the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that demolished Haiti left thousands of people struggling to survive. Several monetary international responses were delayed due to the exaggerated corruption of the Haitian government. Because of current power structures‚ the suffering of the victims was unequal and would be a challenge to address. A structural violence perspective can help explain this unequal suffering among Haitians after the 2010 earthquake.

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    Earthquake Preparedness

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    | Earthquake Preparedness | Public Administration | | Lorena Hedges | 9/18/2012 | I will be discussing the needs of a budget and what supplies will be in the budget plan. Then you will read some about the shelter provided‚ population of the community‚ and damages caused by earthquakes. There will be information about the policy and procedures to follow for an earthquake and what challenges we have to face. The conclusion will be completed in the next phase. | Earthquake Preparedness

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    earthquakes

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    We all have faults and that’s including planet Earth‚ though Earths faults lead to be a lot more destruction. Earthquakes are a trembling or shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy stored in rocks beneath earths surface. Earthquakes appear all over the planet‚ and there are many different sizes. Some earthquakes destroy entire cities while others only shake the ground for a moment. Faults are one of the causes of earthquakes‚ which I will tell about soon as well as the hazards

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    The Northridge Earthquake

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    Earthquakes are vibrations of earth caused by the rapid release of energy. These earthquakes can be caused by faults in the Earth’s crust scraping against each other. Faults are constantly sliding past each other‚ but can occasionally have difficulty when the earth around these faults cracks‚ causing the path to become rugged. When they don’t slide easily‚ they cause tension. When the tension and pressure is released‚ this causes said vibrations that can be large enough to damage and destroy cities

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    Hypocrisy In Haiti

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    with the text “Like this picture to support Haiti” or “Show you care about (insert cause here) by liking and sharing this picture with all of your friends.” On the surface‚ these types of images seem harmless and actually beneficial. People gain the mindset that if they provide support for the icon in the form of “likes‚” then they directly help those that the image shows the cause for. The producer of the photo however believes that this type of mindset causes deeper problems than what the social media

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    SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE

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    FINAL PAPER DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN CHINA A CASE STUDY ON THE 2008 SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE OR THE GREAT SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE ECONOMIC‚ POLITICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF CHINA China is located in East Asia. It is bordering the East China Sea‚ Korea Bay‚ Yellow Sea‚ and South China Sea‚ between North Korea and Vietnam. Officially China is the People ’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ founded in 1949 after the Communist Party defeated the previously dominant nationalist Kuomintang

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    A Summary about When Lightning Struck Always remember: the point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on. When lightning struck the plane‚ the author was in the bathroom of the plane. She knew what it was. The flight waved widely and it was hard for her to sit down. As she lunged toward her seat‚ everyone was looking up at her‚ feared. A little girl beside the author seemed scared‚ for whom it was only second time on an airplane. A young businessman who had been confidently working

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    Earthquake Resistant Building Construction - 1 A short Research Paper on Affordable Solution for Earthquake Resistant Building Construction in Haiti by Dawang Sherpa Submitted to Southern Alberta Institute of Technology-SAIT Calgary‚ Alberta February 24‚ 2010 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Some Concepts on Earthquake Resistant Construction 2.1 2.2 2.3 3.1 Adobe Buildings with Earthquake Resistant Components 3.2 Rice Straw/Wheat Straw Buildings 3.3 Bamboo & Wooden Houses 3.4

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